Ethan Kelly

A dynamic Senior Policy Analyst with extensive professional experience and educational achievements in fields such as policy analysis, clinical settings, advocacy, and strategic planning. Experienced in system-wide collaboration with a range of stakeholders to build consensus around policy initiatives to address complex problems. Led a nationwide training initiative to improve system-wide responses to individuals with a chronic and persistent psychiatric condition and provided technical assistance to counties and states implementing public health and safety programs. Provided clinical management within behavioral health organizations focused on patient-centered service delivery, conducting clinical assessments and oversight to determine treatment needs, staff training and development, and managed care compliance.

• Guardian ad Litem/Attorney for Minor Child Comprehensive Basic Training, 03/01/12, Office of the Public Defender- Child Protection Unit, Children’s Law Center, and Quinnipiac University School of Law.
• DMHAS Emergency Certificate Training, 10/01/13, DMHAS Education and Training Division
• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research, 03/01/15, Chair of The Connection’s Institutional Review Board NIH Web-based training course Protecting Human Research Participants
• International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF), 02/01/16, Certified in Critical Incident Stress Management: Individual/Peer and Group Intervention. In February 2016 coordinated an agency wide CISM training for 45 staff to develop an internal team to respond to employees exposed to crisis.
• Handle With Care- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, 05/01/16, Certified as a trainer for verbal de-escalation, tension reduction model and basic self-defense techniques.